'Game of Thrones'-Themed Ice Hotel Opens in Finland

Courtesy of HBO

10:08 AM PST 1/19/2018
by
the Associated Press

The hotel, located in the village of Kittila, features a bar and a chapel.

A Game of Thrones-themed ice hotel — complete with a bar and a chapel for weddings — has opened in northern Finland in a joint effort by a local hotel chain and the U.S. producers of the hit TV series.

Lapland Hotels said Friday they chose Game of Thrones to be the theme for this season's Snow Village, an annual ice-and-snow construction project covering 24,000 sq. yards in Kittila, 93 miles above the Arctic Circle.

Snow Village operations manager Janne Pasma told Finnish national broadcaster YLE that he was a huge fan of the series and it was "a dream come true" that HBO Nordic agreed to go along.

The hotel, which stays open until April, suggests that guests stay only one night due to below-zero temperatures.